Child psychiatrist discovered to have child porn conviction

As reported by DutchNews.NL

A Dordrecht psychiatric clinic, which offers help from a Christian perspective, is employing a psychiatrist with a conviction for possessing large amounts of child pornography, the Volkskrant says on Monday. The man was convicted of possessing 66,000 items of child porn, including rape videos, in 2012. The board of the De Hoop clinic is aware of the conviction and says the doctor ‘deserves a second chance’.

The clinic says the psychiatrist treats adults with addiction problems and does not work with children or the perpetrators or victims of sexual violence. These conditions of employment were formulated by health ministry inspectors, the clinic said.

(The) Television programme De Monitor reported on Sunday that the man, named as Van R, continued to work with the victims of sexual abuse at a different clinic six months after his conviction. He was then sacked when news of his conviction leaked out.

Next week’s programme will focus on his work at De Hoop. Staff and patients at the clinic have now been informed about the psychiatrist’s past.

See the VolksRant Report here

Online Translation Here

The problem is, of course, that psychiatrists admit that they never cure anyone, and that no one can be cured of any medical condition.

Therefore, how can they give a second chance to a child pornographer if they can't cure him of this condition and addiction?>

Psychiatrist Publishes Do-It-Yourself Suicide Guide

As seen here, probably from a Dutch news report

A Netherlands psychiatrist who assisted in the suicide of a grieving mother that ultimately led to the Dutch Supreme Court ruling that the depressed should have the right to kill themselves has now published a do-it-yourself guide to committing suicide.

The guide is expected to go on sale soon in the European nation and it contains detailed information on how people can use drugs to kill themselves.

It also contains information on how to perform other acts of suicide using starvation techniques and describes the quickest and least painful ways to do so.

"Doctors learn little about this subject during their training," author and psychiatrist Boudewijn Chabot says, according to the London Telegraph. "This book is for people who want to make their own decisions about ending their own lives."

Euthanasia and assisted suicide are legal in the Netherlands and, together, there are already about 4,400 suicides annually.

For noted bioethics watchdog Wesley Smith, that number is high enough already without the publication of a book encouraging more deaths.

"Not content with thousands of euthanasia and assisted suicide deaths a year, the Dutch are about to have access to a suicide guide," he said. "The Dutch have a high suicide rate already."

About Chabot, Smith said he's concerned such a prominent euthanasia advocate would be encouraging more people to kill themselves.

"The author is a true villain in the modern story of euthanasia and assisted suicide," Smith said.

Smith indicated the guide is the slippery slope of euthanasia that promotes death as a solution to any depression or medical ailments.

"The culture of death is like heroin: Once you start to mainline, it is never enough," Smith concluded.

Psychiatrist banned from practice

As seen here

A psychiatrist from Veenendaal has been banned from practising after he sexually abused a patient.

The regional disciplinary tribunal for health care in Amsterdam has come with this decision. The man molested his patient for years while she suffered from depression and addiction to medicine, the woman's lawyer reports.

The psychiatrist also held the woman's sessions at unusually late times; her sessions were often scheduled between 10.30 pm and 2.30 am. The lawyer also says that the doctor failed to adequately update the woman's medical file and had not formulated any treatment plan.

Longest Hospital Detainee wants just a little bit more freedom

A lawyer urged the Arnhem Appeals Court in Amsterdam to consider alternative detention options for a 60-year-old criminal, the Netherland's longest-serving secure hospital detainee, so that the man could spend his remaining years with a greater degree of freedom.

[The Netherlands has a system of compulsory forensic psychiatric treatment, TBS, or terbeschikkingstelling van de staat ("to be put at the disposal of the state") Typically, the status of detainees is reviewed/renewed every two years. Under Dutch laws, someone detained under a TBS order, which is for violent or sexual criminals, can effectively be detained for life in a psychiatric hospital.]

Theo H was sentenced in 1960 at the age of 17 to eight months jail and TBS detention in a psychiatric institution. But H committed another offence seven years later and was sentenced to another 12 months jail and TBS treatment, and in 1985 he received another four months.

Lawyer Willem Anker said the 43 years of psychiatric treatment that H had undergone had proven ineffective, and that his client had earned the right for a greater deal of liberty than he receives at the Van Mesdagkliniek in Groningen.

Anker said his client had not committed an offence for 18 years and should come into consideration for an alternative form of "supervised living", Dutch associated press ANP reported. He said H had effectively received a life sentence without actually killing or raping someone.

This is a tough one. It is the worst of both worlds.

What you really want is months, not years of really effective treatment, not 43 years of ineffective treatment, wasting a life.